Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1887-09-23

liars hare permanently ruined
their chances for salvation.
There is already getting to
be strong political stencil in the
the atmosphere. 1t will be in or
der to hold noses afterwhiie.
The trial of Fred Muncrath, |
Jr., at Sioux City. Iowa, for the
murder of Rev. George Haddock
resulted in verdict of guilty of
manslaughter, the extreme penalty
OF which is eight years. The
jury was out nearly twenty hours.
Sentence will be pronounced Sept
ember %,
"A number Of corn speci-
mems have been left at this Office
during the past month, that meas
ured eight to nine feet to the ears.
Instead of STOPPING to gather corn
in Missouri, we have to climb after
the ears with ladders. Were it
not for little draw backs like this
Missouri would be the first state
in the Union.
The national republican
committee viii meet at Washing
ton early in December to fix the
date and location for the national
convention of 1888. Cincinnati,
St Louis, and other cities will
endeavor to secure the convention,
but there is little doubt that with
reasonable effort on the part of
the people of Chicago it will come
to that city.
Texas highwaymen have a
keen sense of the humorous.
-Four of them, belonging to the
Mancha gang of train robbers,
visited store fifteen miles from
New Braunfels, Saturday, forced
the man in charge to surrender all
the cash on hands, at the point of
the bayonet, and then compell-
ed him to dance highland fling
FOR their amusement.
The fourth anniversary
humber of the Quincy journal
was issued last Saturday and al
excellent paper it was. The mum,
Der contained a history of the pa
per from its inception with cuts
of the editor and the prominent
assistants in the Office. Excepting
the politics of the Journal, there
is 10 better daily, and we doubt
if it has an equal. of the same size
published in the Great West.
The County Court of Sulli.
van county, at its last term, re.
fused to grant dram shop license
to William Maggard, on the ac.
count of the local-option in Tren.
ton. Mr.. Maggard employed At
torneys to take the legal steps
necessary to secure the license
and they applied to Judge Bur
CESS for writ of mandamus, OF
the ground of the laws unconsti-
tutionality. Judge Burgess grant
ed an alternative writ requiring
the court to issue license by the
18th of September, or show cause
for not doing SO. The case viii
probably be heard at the October
term, and will be the first case t.
test the constitutionality of tn,
law.
Elsewhere in these columns
will be found an extract from the
Quincy Journal in which that pa.
pr severely condemns the do.
nothing policy of Mr.. G. FL. Bull
of Quincy in holdidg back any
forward movement of the Q. NJ. &
p. A later issue of the Journal
states that, the New York, Q. NJ. d
?. men have become SO disgusted
with MIR. Bull that they have made
new deal that takes the old North
Missouri road from st. Louis te
Kirksville and the Q. NJ. & P
from Kirksville to Trenton. From
Trenton a new line will be built
TO Pattonsburg and from there te
Omaha via the st. Louis and
Council Bluffs road, making a
through line from Omaha to st
Louis via of Kirksville, leaving
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